Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-01-06
Life.
r. G. Ipgersoll in New York Mirror.


Born Of love and hope, OF ecstasy and
pain, of agony and fear, of tears and JOY
lowered with the wealth of two united
hearts-heId in happy arms, with lips
upon life's drifted font, blae-veined and
fair, where perfect peace finds perfect
form-rocked by willing feet and wooed
to shadowy shores of sleep by siren
mother singing soft and low looking
with wonders wide and startled eyes at
common things Of life and day-taught
by want and wish and contact
with the things that touch the dim
pied flesh of babes - lured by light
and flame and charmed by color
wonderous robes-learning the use of
hands and feet, and by the love of mimi
cry beguiled to utter speech-releasing
| prisoned thoughts from Grabbed and curl
! Gus marks on soiled and tattered leaves
| puzzl1ng the brain with crooked num-
bers and their changing tangled worth
and go through years of alternating day
and night, until the captive grows famil-
| lar with the chains and walls and limita-
| tiOns of a life.
| And time rms on in sun and shade, I'M
til the one of all the world is wooed and
won, and all the lore of love is taught and
| learned again. Again home is built with
the fair chamber wherein faint dreams,
like cool and shadowy Wales, divide the
| beloved hours Of love. Again the mira
Gle of birth-the pain and Joy. the kiss
of welcome and the cradle-song, drowning
the drowsy prattle of babe.
| And then the sense of obligation and of
wrong-pity for those who toll and weep
tears for the imprisoned and despised
love for the generous dead, and in the
heart the rapture of high Tesolve.
| And then ambition with its lust of pelf
and place and power, longing to put upon
| Its breast distinctions worthless badge
Then keener thoughts of men, and eyes
that see behind the smiling mask of
cratt-fattered no more by the obsequi-
Gus crlnge of gain and greed-knowing
the uselessness of boarded gold and
honor bought from those who charge
| usury of self-respect-of power that only
bends towards knees and forces from
the lips Of fear the lies of praise. Know
ing at last the unstudied gesture of es-
TEEN, the reverent eyes made rich with
| honest thought, and holding high above
all other things-high as hopes great
throbbing star above the darkness of the
dead-the love Of wife and child and
friend.
linen Jocks of gray, and growing love
OF other days and half remembered
thlngs-then holding wlthered hands of
those who first held his, while over dim
and loving eyes death softly presses down
the lids of rest.
And so, locking in marriage VOWS his
chlldren's hands, and crossing others on
the breasts of peace, with daughters
babes upon his knees, the white hair
mlngiing with the gold, he journeys on
from day to day to that horizon where
the dusk is waiting for the night--sitting
oy the holy hearth of home, as the last
embers change from red to gray, he falls
asleep with the arms of her he worshiped
and adored, falling upon the pallid lips
loves last and hottest kiss.
A new style of paving block, for which
Is claimed some special advan
tages is composed of hollow iron
shell filed with any desired concrete, the
shell being arched underneath, and for
street paving are some four inches wide
and from ten to twelve long.
The water-works now being erected in
Helena, Montana, will cost the taxpayers
$500,OO0 before finished.